Screw-driver.



No. 871,154.. 'PATBNTED Nov. 19, 1907..l

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` SCREWDRIVER.

APPLIoATIoN FILED 11111.17. 1905.

' To all ivhom it may concern:

j' 'UNITED 'STATES PnrENT omnes;

GEORGE E. WOOD, I OFl PLANTSVILLE; CONNECTICUT.

SCREW-DRIVER;

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. Woon, a citizen of the `United States, residing.. at Plantsville, Connecticut,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Screw Drivers, ofl which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to tools and particu- .larly to screwdrivers.

` My main object 1s to provide a tool of this character which willbe of great strength and durability and which may be economically manufactured -In particular, my object is to provide a means whereby the parts of the tool will be held in positive connection, each with the other, and furthermore, l aim to provide a new and improved means for taking up the longitudinal thrust and the rotary movement` of the handle portion, thereby making it a practical impossibility for the shank to be accidentally driven up into the handle or for either of the parts -to be rotated relatively to the other.

To that end my invention consists in the parts and combination of parts hereafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Fi re 1 is a side elevation of a screwdriver em odying my invention. Fie. 2 is a side elevation of the same, the handle portion being shown in 'longitudinal' section. Fig. 3 is a horlzontal section of the same on the line of Fig. 2.

\ Fig. 4 is a cross section ofthe tool shank i tends into and fits'the bore of said handle 1.

showing the longitudinal ribs or spurs therein in end elevation.

1 is ahandle made preferably of wood and rovided with "e, longitudinal bore at its ower end. 2 isa metal shank, the upper portion 3 of which is blunt ended and ex- 4-4 are longitudinal flanges or ribs integral withsaid shank and formed in any suitable manner, as, for instance, by dies, the said projections extending laterally beyond the surface ofthe shank so as to eut into the ma-l terial of the handle 1. 5 is an abutment, also formed integral with the shank 2, said abutment being iormed preferably by upsetting the shank 2.

6 is aiferrule surrounding the lower end of the handle.

In the assembling of this device a bore is formed in the lower portion ot' the handle oiv suflicient size to permit ot the introduction of the shank. v'The ferruie is then forced on Specification of Letters Patent. Y Application filed January 17, 1905. Serial No 241.444.

Pazentednov. 19, 1907'.

to the handle, and the shank, after being inserted inte the bore, is driven therein so that the inner end rests against the handle at the inner end of the bore, and the abutment 5 rests against the ferrule 6.

In the form shown, I have provided a ferrule of considerable length relative to the length 'of the handle; thus it will be noticed that that portion of the handle in which the lateral projectionsof the' shank are inserted is protected by said ferrule so that any -tendency on the part of the wood, or other substance of which the handle is formed, to

split, as for example, by reason of a twisting movement exerted thereon, will be prevented by said ferrule.

In a screw driver as above constructed, it will be seen that it is possible to subject the tool to the severest usage without driving the shank into the handle or affecting in the least its position with relation thereto, the longitudinal thrust of the shank being taken up partly by the handle 1 and partly by the ferrule 6. s

It will Abe observed that the abutment 5 also serves to cover the slits in the material of the handle within the end of the ferrule formedby assembling the shank and the handle.

In the preferred form the abutment partakes of the same taper as the ierrule so that the article as a whole assumes the appearance of the so called socketl screw driver. Having described my invention, what I claim is:

l. In a device of the character described, a wooden handle having a tapered inner end, a ferrule fitted to and supported upon lsaid tapered portion,- a shank, a longitudinal rib or flange thereon standing beyond the surface et said' shank, the greatest diameter oi said shank at said ribbed portion being less than the smallest diameter of the 'ferrule, a central bore in the handle portion arranged to receive the shank, the rib thereof cutting into the material of the handle at the side of said bore, and an abutment on said shank of greater diameter than the diameter ol that part ofthe shank projecting into the handle, said abutment taking a bearing against and covering the inner extremity of said ferrulc.

2. lin a device of the character described, a wooden handle having a tapered inner end, a ferrulelitted to and supported upon said ltapered portion, shank, a longitudinal iih face of said shank, the greatest diameter of said abutment'taking a bearing against and l0 said shank at said ribbed portion 'being less covering the inner extremity of said ferrule* than the smallest diameter of the ferrule, a and forming a flush joint therewith.

central bore in the handle ortion arranged Signed at New Britain, Conn., this 14th to receive the shank7 the ri thereof cutting day of January, 1905; Y f Y into the material of the handle at the side of GEORGE E. WOOD. said bore, and an abutment on said shank of Witnesses; 7 greater diameter than the diameter of that vH. S. 'WALTER,

part ofthe shank projecting into the handle, WV.v J. WQRAM. 

